Rear of Dysart Terrace
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The photograph on this page of Rear of Dysart Terrace by Penny Mayes as part of the Geograph project.
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Rear of Dysart Terrace
Image: © Penny Mayes Taken: 1 Jan 2018
Viewed from the upper river bank path. Dysart Terrace was built in 1875 largely to house the tweed weavers brought in from Yorkshire, Ireland, Scotland and Lancashire to make tweed in local mills at the suggestion of Lionel, 8th Earl of Dysart, the father-in-law of Charles Hanbury Tracey (later Lord Sudeley) who owned the Gregynog Estate and some of the woollen mills in the town at the time. This superior housing did little to engender harmony between the 'foreign' workers and their Welsh counterparts. The front of the terrace http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/586736 faces onto Canal Road and looks like two-storey houses. The third floor, below road level, was originally a separate household - and may still be in some cases - facing onto the canal (since filled in) and accessed from the rear.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.518946
Longitude
-3.304957